- An approach to enhanced control room crew performance
- The author describes team skills training and the advances made in this area by utilizing both classroom and high-fidelity simulator training. The approach taken by the Duke Power Company to implement team skills training for the control room teams at its three nuclear power plants in North and South Carolina is discussed. It is concluded that nucl....
- Authors:Frye;S.R.Publisher:Human Factors and Power Plants;1988.;Conference Record for 1988 IEEE Fourth Conference onConference Date:5-9 June 1988ISSN:Total Page:xii+596
- Human engineering considerations in designing a computerized controlled access security system
- The authors describe human engineering effort in the design of a major security system upgrade at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This upgrade was to be accomplished by replacing obsolete and difficult-to-man (i.e. multiple-operator task actions required) security equipment and systems with a new, automated, computer-based access control sy....
- Authors:Moore;J.W.;Banks;W.W.Publisher:Human Factors and Power Plants;1988.;Conference Record for 1988 IEEE Fourth Conference onConference Date:5-9 June 1988ISSN:Total Page:xii+596
- Shiftwork, work scheduling and their impact upon operators in nuclear power plants
- The author notes that the risk for operator error may increase during the night shift due to the influence from circadian rhythms, with variations in alertness and performance efficiency. The author considers some of the factors that have been shown to have a major impact on the adjustment to shiftwork at nuclear power plants, with particular empha....
- Authors:Dahlgren;K.Publisher:Human Factors and Power Plants;1988.;Conference Record for 1988 IEEE Fourth Conference onConference Date:5-9 June 1988ISSN:Total Page:xii+596
- A risk methodology to evaluate sensitivity of plant risk to human errors
- The authors present an evaluation of the sensitivity of plant risk parameters, namely the core melt frequency and the accident sequence frequencies, to the human errors involved in various aspects of nuclear power plant operations. Results are provided using the Oconee-3 Probabilistic Risk Assessment model as an example application of the risk meth....
- Authors:Samanta;P.;Wong;S.;Higgins;J.;Haber;S.;Luckas;W.Publisher:Human Factors and Power Plants;1988.;Conference Record for 1988 IEEE Fourth Conference onConference Date:5-9 June 1988ISSN:Total Page:xii+596
- US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Maintenance Improvement Program
- The author provides an overview on the background and the activities which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has initiated to improve the maintenance of nuclear power plants. The Commission's Final Policy Statement on Maintenance of Nuclear Power Plants', dated March 17, 1988 is summarized.
- Authors:Jankovich;J.P.Publisher:Human Factors and Power Plants;1988.;Conference Record for 1988 IEEE Fourth Conference onConference Date:5-9 June 1988ISSN:Total Page:xii+596
- Nondestructive testing in maintenance and the role of the human operator
- Several independent variables that are likely to influence performance significantly on nondestructive testing tasks are considered. These include task, procedural, training, and environment variables. Given the general need to assess the efficacy of maintenance systems, an analysis of data in relative operator characteristic terms is advocated. So....
- Authors:Triggs;T.J.Publisher:Human Factors and Power Plants;1988.;Conference Record for 1988 IEEE Fourth Conference onConference Date:5-9 June 1988ISSN:Total Page:xii+596
- Control and diagnostics for nuclear power plant performance and safety enhancement
- The author describes the technological advances in the area of diagnostics, control, and automation for the enhancement of performance and safety of nuclear plants. This survey is carried out in the framework of a human cognitive model of control and diagnostics. Particular attention is given to signal validation for a safety parameter display syst....
- Authors:Sun;B.K.-H.Publisher:Human Factors and Power Plants;1988.;Conference Record for 1988 IEEE Fourth Conference onConference Date:5-9 June 1988ISSN:Total Page:xii+596
- Why 'what' isn't 'how': a new approach to procedure writing (nuclear power stations)
- The Human Factors Group at Northeast Utilities (NU) developed a writer's guide to help personnel improve plant procedures. The human factors group determined that existing writer's guides did not address the writing problems, and more importantly, did not describe 'how' to implement guidelines. The new writer's guide provides instruction on what gu....
- Authors:Trump;T.R.;Stave;A.M.Publisher:Human Factors and Power Plants;1988.;Conference Record for 1988 IEEE Fourth Conference onConference Date:5-9 June 1988ISSN:Total Page:xii+596
- Alarm filtering system-a design tool (power station computer control)
- An approach to power plant alarm filtering using alarm relationships is briefly discussed. The industrywide need for this capability is described and the development environment is presented. The use of this tool during the design process is explored and various design considerations are examined. A typical alarm design development is outlined and ....
- Authors:Kamel;J.A.;Antinoja;R.C.Publisher:Human Factors and Power Plants;1988.;Conference Record for 1988 IEEE Fourth Conference onConference Date:5-9 June 1988ISSN:Total Page:xii+596
- Implementing requirements for upgrading emergency operating procedures: a regulatory perspective
- Requirements for the commercial nuclear power industry to improve the quality and useability of plant procedures, including emergency operating procedures (EOPs), were established as a result of the accident at Three Mile Island. The authors review the historical background of the requirements for upgrading EOPs and the industry's efforts to meet t....
- Authors:Bongarra;J.P.;Jr.;Persensky;J.J.Publisher:Human Factors and Power Plants;1988.;Conference Record for 1988 IEEE Fourth Conference onConference Date:5-9 June 1988ISSN:Total Page:xii+596
- Optimal control of a storage-retrieval qu
- Control of multi-service loss networks
- Optimal scheduling control in a multi-cla
- Envelopes, high-order optimality conditio
- The generalized maximum principle and the
- Reduction of conservatism in mixed H/sub
- Robot motion planning with nonholonomic c
- Group behavior models for learning in neu
- Design techniques of neural networks for
- Lossless cascade networks and stochastic
- An overview of recent results on the para
- A unified approach for the stability robu
- On the robust stability of a family of di
- Robust stabilization of interval plants u
- Robust stability of interval matrices
- Robustness of stability of linear state s
- Predictive control of flexible manufactur
- Analysis and synthesis of asynchronous, a
- An exact efficient discrete-event model f
- A novel viewpoint for the analysis of the
- A geometrical linearization theory
- Computation of nonlinear observers
- Observer-based control of fully-lineariza
- Observer error linearization for sampled-
- A G-RKHS of bounded nonlinear operators f